BIOScaler

The amount of data produced by a high-performance sequencer has increased by more than 1000x. Many other scientific instruments, such as certain microscopes, have increased output by even more than that. The need to support reliable and fast instrument data ingest as well as analysis, archive, collaboration, publication, and data protection can drive architects to create multiple, separate infrastructure silos. Silos are cumbersome to grow, can slow research due to the delay of data transfers, and are expensive to maintain. Modern Life Sciences workflows need a data infrastructure solution that can handle the entire workflow on a single platform and grow capacity and performance across all functions.

Introducing the Single Solution For End-To-End Life Sciences Workflows

To overcome never-ending data growth, the BIOScaler™ High-Performance Converged Life Sciences Storage Platform delivers a best-in-class solution that allows you to manage end-to-end sequencing, microscopy or modeling, and simulation workﬂows – from high-performance, multi-instrument ingest, to analysis and cost-effective, active archive – within a single platform. BIOScaler delivers an all-in-one turnkey solution that overcomes scale, performance, and cost hurdles and is simple to install, conﬁgure, and manage.

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BioScaler Benefits

With conﬁgurations starting under 100TB, BIOScaler scales up in either capacity or performance, either locally or remotely, and presents a single view of data across flash, RAID, and object storage, giving you multiple growth options. For simple and straightforward access, BIOScaler delivers a range of connectivity options, including 1/10/40 Gb/E, Fibre Channel, InﬁniBand, and protocol support such as NFS, SMB, S3, OpenStack/Swift, and HDFS. With performance beyond traditional NAS or SAN, BIOScaler offers per-client speeds from megabytes per second up to 10 gigabytes per second to accommodate a large number of high data-rate instruments (HDRs) as your environment grows.

Starts from a few GB/s of performance in a single base unit and scales to hundreds of GB/s using a building-block approach

Starts small and scales to hundreds of concurrent instrument streams

Scales to more than hundreds of PB, with a capacity that ranges from 80TB to 9PB/rack

Delivers up to 5 or even 10GB/s single-stream performance and scales linearly using Parallel Workload Clients

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BIOScaler Configurations & Specifications

BIOScaler efficiently grows to hundreds of petabytes of capacity and hundreds of gigabytes per second, delivering high performance, industry-leading density, and scalability for core workﬂows. It also provides simple and cost-effective automatic data tiering to an Active Archive, private/hybrid cloud, and tape—all under a single global namespace that is completely transparent to end users and applications and leverages existing, standard security measures.

For ultimate control over data proximity and availability, BIOScaler provides automated policies that tier data based on your requirements and provides a single ﬁle-system view of all data—regardless of location. BIOScaler delivers high-performance archiving options that seamlessly add cloud nodes for collaborative workﬂows and high availability. For lower-cost archiving, BIOScaler also provides the option to add Active Archive and tape nodes for warm and cold data.